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...The Dresden fab follows a $40bn investment in a new advanced chip complex in Arizona and a joint venture in Japan, where TSMC is building a plant for making specialty technology — a range of niche chips...
...Lee at Morningstar is confident in TSMC’s growth: “Even with its dominant market share, we believe the company can deliver above-industry growth through a higher proportion of more valuable specialty products...
...These Apple employees have played integral roles co-designing new production processes, overseeing the minutiae of manufacturing until things were up and running, and keeping close tabs on suppliers to ensure...
...“We will focus our investment on specialty. For manufacturing greenfield expansion, we don’t rule it out, as long as demand can justify it.”...
...Many years ago I did a series of interviews with Andy Grove, the late co-founder of Intel, and author of Only the Paranoid Survive....
...Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s biggest maker of made-to-order chips with a market share of 56 per cent and the supplier of the core processors that power Apple’s iPhones, closed 3.1 per...
...UMC’s bigger rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has an advantage in cloud AI....
...When I go to another health care specialty, can they not ask me how I got HIV or double glove before they touch me?...
...Jorgen Lindvik, co-founder of Den Gyldne Bonne, recalls: “I had just bought a roasting machine from Italy and I sent out about 100 emails to various companies dealing in coffee....
...Platform Specialty has focused on buying businesses that have little or no manufacturing capacity, but instead develop the science behind chemical products....
...Industries from energy to manufacturing are increasingly connected via the “internet of things”, as oil rigs, manufacturing equipment and ships, to name a few, “talk” to their administrators, increasing...
...But in Specialty food Ingredients, as expected, operating profit growth had been pegged back “by the more competitive market for SPLENDA Sucralose”....
...But KKR is also injecting fresh capital that will help finance construction of Gland’s new manufacturing facility....
...India’s government has given the go-ahead for US-based pharmaceutical company Mylan’s long-stalled $1.6bn acquisition of Indian vaccine and injectable-drug maker Agila Specialties, after months of internal...
...The latest to cancel was Posco Specialty Steel, owned by steel giant Posco....
...It aimed to create 150,000 jobs over two years by harnessing Haiti’s genuine advantages in garment manufacturing, tourism and agriculture....
...He brought in two co-founders, Ilka Luck, from the institute, and Ulfert Rühle, with a manufacturing background in electrical engineering....
...Currently, our international students can borrow up to $40,000 each year towards tuition without a US co-signer and can borrow up to the full cost of attendance with a US co-signer....
...High-end “specialty steel” accounts for 70-90 per cent of output at the big, integrated producers, according to S&P....
...Danaher, the US manufacturing company, on Wednesday provided further evidence of its strategy to expand in higher-growth businesses when it agreed to buy Sybron Dental Specialties, a dental products group...
...I’m biased here as well, of course, as I’m the co-founder and co-Editor in Chief, but check out the latest SmartMoney, which says: “If there’s one must-read for value mavens, it’s Value Investor Insight…...
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